WEST GERMANY: Adenauer Under Attack

For five years Konrad Adenauer had
labored to put West Germany's best face forward. The stern old
schoolmaster kept the unruly boys in his Bundestag shiny, neat and
well-behaved. But last week, with the prize of German sovereignty
assured, his pupils were kicking over the traces, bedeviling the old
schoolmaster, and acting all too much like their old selves. Demagogy,
irresponsible nationalism, and religious bickering swirled through
provincial election campaigns in Hesse and Bavaria. The same kind of
resurgent nationalism is now astir in Germany's defeated Axis partner,
Japan (see below)....